High Line

The High Line is a 1.45-mile-long elevated linear park, greenway, and rail trail, opened in 2009. It was created on a former New York Central Railroad spur on the west side of Manhattan in New York City which had been abandoned in 1980, and it is now home to landscape architecture, urban design, and ecology. The High Line's success has inspired other cities to redevelop obsolete infrastructure as public space, and real-estate values and prices along the route have risen due to its new scenic beauty.